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Just when you thought the Halloween season was over, Part-Time Fanboy steps forward with a treat for all comic book readers to enjoy! This week Kristian crosses the pond once again to chat with UK writer Cavan Scott about his new comic book series, Night of the Slashers! Night of the Slashers is a new limited series being published by Magma Comix and tells the horrifying tale of what happens when a group of teenagers find themselves trapped in a town where everyone becomes a slasher-like killer in the vein of Michael Myers or Jason Voorhees! Kristian chats with Cavan about his love of horror movies, why he prefers slasher movies over other kinds or horror flicks, and how he's able to keep the slasher sub-genre from getting stale when everyone in the town is a murderer!

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Happy Halloween!

It’s October! During the month of October Part-Time Fanboy continues its tradition of chatting about horror films during the Halloween month! Every week this month, Part-Time Fanboy welcomes some of their favorite indie comics creators to pick one of their favorite spooky movies and chat about it on the podcast!

For this All Hallow's Eve we have possibly one of the craziest bad movie picks we've ever presented on this podcast! Artist Chris Anderson (Lost Angels, Spectral,) picked the 1989 B-movie horror flick Elves...because once Halloween is over, all anyone cares about is Christmas, right?

Elves is one of the greatest terrible movies you've never heard of. Featuring secret Nazi plots, incest, and a kindly performance by Dan Haggerty's Grizzly Adams, Kristian could only describe the film as a Mike Mignola fever dream after he'd seen it! Comic creators David Accampo (Lost Angels, Spectral, The Margins) and Terry Mayo (Buddy, The Wicked Righteous, Disposable Legends) are joined by PTF regular Yvis Cannavale as they all join Kristian to rip open their X-Mas presents early to chat about one of the strangest movies ever to be talked about on this show!

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It’s October! During the month of October Part-Time Fanboy continues its tradition of chatting about horror films during the Halloween month! Every week this month, Part-Time Fanboy welcomes some of their favorite indie comics creators to pick one of their favorite spooky movies and chat about it on the podcast!

This week Dave Dwonch (Cyrus Perkins and the Haunted Taxicab, Prom of the Dead, Jenny Zero) picks The Final Girls! The Final Girls is a charming and hysterical send up of eighties slasher movies like Friday the 13th and Halloween. When a fire breaks out during a revival screening of a classic slasher flick, five young moviegoers find themselves mysteriously transported into the film itself. Hijinks ensue as a group of millenial young people have to deal with navigating not only the dangers of a maniacal killer on the loose but the attitudes of a bunch of out of touch gen x movie characters! Josh Eiserike (The Very Last Final Girls, Charm City, Pale of Settlement) joins the fun as Kristian and Dave dive into a fun horror movie that's perfect Halloween viewing for people who aren't fans of horror movies!

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Jeremy Whitley has been on the podcast several times. With books like Princeless, School For Extraterrestrial Girls, and The Dog Knight Whitley has proven himself as a writer with an ability to tap into the core of characters who have not always been represented in pop culture fiction. In his latest book, Navigating With You, Jeremy tells what Kristian considers to be his best story yet and is his favorite comic of the year so far. In NWY, two girls start at a new school and find themselves drawn to one another by their affection for a manga they both read when they were younger but is now out of print. As they search for the hard to find volumes of the comic they discover a friendship that blossoms into a romance that helps them break through barriers that both society and they themselves have set up to hold them back. Navigating With You is a charming tale filled with the meditative sweetness of Miyazaki films like My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki's Delivery Service. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast Kristian chats with Jeremy about the inspiration behind his latest book and gushes over just how much it moved him.

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It’s October! During the month of October Part-Time Fanboy continues its tradition of chatting about horror films during the Halloween month! Every week this month, Part-Time Fanboy welcomes some of their favorite indie comics creators to pick one of their favorite spooky movies and chat about it on the podcast!

This week PTF regular Yvis Cannavale picks the George C. Scott eighties classic The Changeling! The Changeling tells the tale of a widower who moves to the Pacific Northwest after suffering an unimaginable tragedy. While trying to recover from the traumatic event that took his family from him, he discovers that the house that he is staying in is occupied by an otherworldly presence that wants him to solve the mystery of its passing. Writer David Accampo (Lost Angels, Spectral, The Margins) joins the conversation as Part-Time Fanboy dives into the spirit realm to discuss one of the classier and spookier horror flicks the decade had to offer!

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Fred Van Lente is one of the best writers working in comics today. Kristian discovered his work when Van Lente became one of the creators that Valiant Entertainment tapped to relaunch their line of comics back in 2012. He's worked extensively for Marvel Comics through the years as well as continuing to work on his own creator owned projects. This week sees the launch of his latest book, Murder Kingdom, published by Mad Cave Studios. Murder Kingdom tells the tale of what happens when a serial killer decides to make a theme park the setting for a series of brutal murders based on Grimms' Fairy Tales. This week on the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian chats with Fred about the inspiration behind his new horror series and why he thought a place where families make magical memories was the perfect setting for his splatter-filled story!

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It's October! During the month of October Part-Time Fanboy continues its tradition of chatting about horror films during the Halloween month! Every week this month, Part-Time Fanboy welcomes some of their favorite indie comics creators to pick one of their favorite spooky movies and chat about it on the podcast!

This week Clay Adams (Blazing Blade of Frankenstein, Dreamquest, Nightmare Theater, Deadskins) picks the second sequel to the Alfred Hitchcock classic Psycho! Psycho 3 is the first movie directed by the star of the original film, Anthony Perkins, and is a fever dream of a film! Take the Cohen Brothers and spin them in a blender with David Lynch and the result is the Psycho follow up that ol' Hitch himself probably never could have imagined! This week Kristian sits down with Clay, PTF regular Yvis Cannavale, and friend of the podcast Joe Slepski (of the Joe on Joe Podcast) to discuss the horror movie that only Norman Bates himself could direct!

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October is here! During the month of October Part-Time Fanboy continues its tradition of chatting about horror films during the Halloween month! Every week this month, Part-Time Fanboy welcomes some of their favorite indie comics creators to pick one of their favorite spooky movies and chat about it on the podcast!

This week Steven Prince, the creator of Monster Matador (latest issue is now funding on Kickstarter), joins the podcast and picked A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors! Dream Warriors is considered by some to be the greatest film of the Elm Street franchise! On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy Podcast, Kristian sits down with Steven and Joe Slepski (of the Joe on Joe podcast) to talk about the Freddy Krueger movie that captured the imagination of horror fans everywhere! When Freddy invades the dreams of a group of creative teens he gets more than he bargained for as they decide to use their imaginations to fight back in the dream world. It's time to discuss the horror movie that actually started to build the Freddy-verse and gave eighties comic book fans a familiar feel on this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast!

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Tonya Todd is an actress, author, and podcaster. On October 2nd a group of essays she co-edited with A. R. Farina is set to be released called Comics Lit. In Comics Lit, comic book fans with backgrounds in film, education, and literature take a deep dive into the connections between modern day pop culture super people and characters in classic literature. In Tonya's essay she explores the strong association between Catwoman and Sherlock Holmes's Irene Adler and in another essay a connection is made between  Rappaccini's Daughter and Poison Ivy. On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian sits down with Tonya to chat about all things Catwoman, about how she came around to discovering that comic books could be literature and works of high art, and how she became involved in the process of gathering and editing the essays for Comics Lit.

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It's time to go ape again in the Part-Time Fanboy treehouse! This week we swing back into the Planet of the Apes franchise and take a look at the third movie in the original series, Escape From The Planet of the Apes! At the end of Beneath The Planet of the Apes Taylor blew up the planet! How did the producers of the Apes movies solve that problem? By flipping the script and sending Zira and Cornelius back into a human dominated past! On this episode of the Part-Time Fanboy podcast, Kristian sits down once again with PTF regular Yvis Cannavale and friend of the show Joe Slepski (of the Joe On Joe Podcast) to chat about the Planet of the Apes film that took the movies into a whole new direction!

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